Đuro Smičiklas (14 December 1815 – 20 April 1881) was a Greek-Catholic hierarch, the bishop from 1857 to 1881 of the Eastern Catholic Eparchy of Križevci (today part of the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia). Born in Reštovo, near Sošice,

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) in 1815, he was

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on 11 April 1841 for the Eparchy of Križevci. Fr. Smičiklas was the parish priest in

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from 1849 to 1852 and canon in the Križevci Greek Catholic Cathedral from 1852 to 1857. He was confirmed as the Bishop by the

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on 21 December 1857. He was

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to the

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on 21 March 1858. The principal

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was Archbishop Alexandru Sterca-Șuluțiu. He died in Križevci on 20 April 1881.

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*His name was also rendered ''Juraj Smičiklas'' and .

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1815 births 1881 deaths 19th-century Eastern Catholic bishops Croatian Eastern Catholics Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia {{Croatia-stub

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